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Josiah Royce Quotes

d. 1916 United States

Josiah Royce (November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher.

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Error is not a mere accident of an untrained intellect, but a necessary stage or feature or moment of the expression of the truth.

Lectures on Modern Idealism (1919)

In this way I suggest to you the proof which a rigid analysis of the logic of our most commonplace thought would give for the doctrine that in the world there is but one Self, and that it is his world which we all alike are truly meaning, whether we talk of one another or of Cromwell's character or of the fixed stars or of the far-off aeons of the future.

The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures (1892)

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